What appears to be a floral still life comes to life with the activity of a number of small figures and a ship disguised among the flowers. Red, orange, yellow, and green add color to the otherwise black-and-white composition.

The inspiration for this print is Jacques Callot, the French printmaker of the 1600's who went to Italy and etched portraits of the Italian actors and their large theatrical productions, among other things. The bouquet is a thank you to him and the incredible gift his etchings are to printmakers and any student of history. Standing in the center of the bouquet is one of Callot's favorite actors in a bow of gratitude and mischievousness. Other actors dance or perform on the leaves and table along with a Greek musician, a juggler, and a skin diver while a ship moves through the water above near a flower whose petals look like waves. In my prints I have continued to explore creation of an atmosphere which combines air, water, and land. Much of the imagery floats through this atmosphere on missions of their own, but each print has an overall theme which loosely ties them together. My goal is to combine many images or elements which provide new and different interpretations for each viewer or each viewing. This way I hope the print remains fresh and that the viewer will always have something new to discover. I believe my work could loosely be described as surrealistic. (Funkhouser, 1989.)

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